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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8103504 | Electronic appliance and voice signal processing method for use in the same An electronic appliance includes a speaker which outputs a first sound wave based on a first voice signal generated from the electronic appliance, and a microphone to detect a second sound wave on which a sound wave generated for control of the electronic appliance ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8086456 | Methods and apparatus for rapid acoustic unit selection from a large speech corpus A speech synthesis system can select recorded speech fragments, or acoustic units, from a very large database of acoustic units to produce artificial speech. The selected acoustic units are chosen to minimize a combination of target and concatenation costs for a giv... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078466 | Coarticulation method for audio-visual text-to-speech synthesis A method for generating animated sequences of talking heads in text-to-speech applications wherein a processor samples a plurality of frames comprising image samples. The processor reads first data comprising one or more parameters associated with noise-producing or... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073694 | System and method for testing a TTS voice Disclosed are various elements of a toolkit used for generating a TTS voice for use in a spoken dialog system. The invention in each case may be in the form of the system, a computer-readable medium or a method for generating the TTS voice. An embodiment of the inve... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8055501 | Speech synthesizer generating system and method thereof A speech synthesizer generating system and a method thereof are provided. A speech synthesizer generator in the speech synthesizer generating system automatically generates a speech synthesizer conforming to a speech output specification input by a user. In addition... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050926 | Apparatus and method for adjusting prompt voice depending on environment An apparatus for adjusting a prompt voice depending on an environment comprises a receiver module used for receiving a background sound, an analyzer module generating a control signal according to the background sound and an output module adjusting an output frequen... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046225 | Prosody-pattern generating apparatus, speech synthesizing apparatus, and computer program product and method thereof Normalization parameters are generated at a normalization-parameter generating unit by calculating the mean values and the standard deviations of an initial prosody pattern and a prosody pattern of a training sentence of a speech corpus. Then, the variance range or ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041569 | Speech synthesis method and apparatus using pre-recorded speech and rule-based synthesized speech A language processing unit identifies a word by performing language analysis on a text supplied from a text holding unit. A synthesis selection unit selects speech synthesis processing performed by a rule-based synthesis unit or speech synthesis processing performed... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032376 | Personalized electronic greeting card and associated method An electronic greeting card for recording and playing back a personalized message includes a bifurcated card with first and second coextensively shaped sections pivotally coupled to each other. The device further includes a mechanism for recording and playing back a... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027835 | Speech processing apparatus having a speech synthesis unit that performs speech synthesis while selectively changing recorded-speech-playback and text-to-speech and method A speech processing apparatus which can playback a sentence using recorded-speech-playback or text-to-speech is provided. It is determined whether each of a plurality of words or phrases constituting a sentence is a word or phrase to be played back by recorded-speec... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7983918 | Audio instruction system and method A device and method for assisting a human user in performing processes includes a speaker that provides audible instructions to the user corresponding to multiple tasks associated with performing the process. A storage device stores data corresponding to the audible... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7962341 | Method and apparatus for labelling speech A method for the prosodic labelling of speech including performing a first analysis step using data from an audio file, wherein the audio file is analysed as a plurality of frames positioned at fixed time intervals in said audio file; and performing a second analysi... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953600 | System and method for hybrid speech synthesis A speech synthesis system receives symbolic input describing an utterance to be synthesized. In one embodiment, different portions of the utterance are constructed from different sources, one of which is a speech corpus recorded from a human speaker whose voice is t... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7912718 | Method and system for enhancing a speech database A system, method and computer readable medium that enhances a speech database for speech synthesis is disclosed. The method may include labeling audio files in a primary speech database and a secondary speech database, enhancing the primary speech database by placin... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7895041 | Text to speech interactive voice response system A text to speech interactive voice response system is operable within a personal computer having a processor, data storage means and an operating system. The system comprises an input subsystem for receiving a text data stream from a source device in a predetermined... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7873520 | Method and apparatus for tagtoe reminders A network-based text-to-speech (TTS) TagToe alert system is configured to take a user's textual and/or multimedia input to a TagToe user interface to schedule delivery of text-to-speech-converted TagToe information to one or more telephone call recipients. The text-... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7870142 | Text to grammar enhancements for media files A control system in a vehicle for extracting meta data from a digital media storage device over a communication link. The system includes a communication module for establishing a communication link with the digital media storage device. The system also includes a p... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865365 | Personalized voice playback for screen reader A method, system, and computer program product is disclosed for customizing a synthesized voice based upon audible input voice data. The input voice data is typically in the form of one or more predetermined paragraphs being read into a voice recorder. The input voi... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7840408 | Duration prediction modeling in speech synthesis The present invention provides a method and apparatus for training a duration prediction model, method and apparatus for duration prediction, method and apparatus for speech synthesis. Said method for training a duration prediction model, comprising: generating an i... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7822606 | Method and apparatus for generating audio information from received synthesis information Methods and apparatus for providing enhanced audio are described. In some embodiments speech synthesis information is used to provide user control of attributes of received broadcast speech, such as language, tone, speed, gender, and volume. In other embodiments, sp... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7809571 | Speech output of setting information according to determined priority In order to prevent or reduce setting errors, a speech output of information concerning the contents of settings is produced so that important setting information can be output as speech to users. The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for outp... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805306 | Voice guidance device and navigation device with the same For a voice guidance phrase, multiple voice data items having individually different voice ranges or frequencies are previously stored in a memory. A voice mixing unit chooses to mix three voice data items among the stored voice data items and thereby produces a mix... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7778833 | Method and apparatus for using computer generated voice This invention relates to a method and apparatus for computer generated voice in an interactive voice response system (IVR). A user will normally be able to identify the pre-recorded segments from the synthesized ones played by the IVR. According to an aspect of the... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7769589 | System and method for providing electronic program guide Disclosed is a system for providing an electronic program guide and a method of providing the same, the electronic program guide (EPG) being about a plurality of programs supplied through a digital broadcasting system, including the steps of receiving service inform... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7761299 | Methods and apparatus for rapid acoustic unit selection from a large speech corpus A speech synthesis system can select recorded speech fragments, or acoustic units, from a large database of acoustic units to produce artificial speech. The selected acoustic units are chosen to minimize a combination of target and concatenation costs for a given se... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7747439 | Method and system for recognizing phoneme in speech signal A method of correctly segmenting phonemes by determining a boundary indicating a start point and an end point of each of the segmented phonemes, and correctly finding the phoneme in the speech signal by determining which phoneme in a phoneme recognition standard tab... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7739112 | Signal coupling method and apparatus A signal connecting method and apparatus is provided which can reduce noises and create natural synthesized voices. The signal connecting method (or apparatus) for connecting a plurality of waveform signals and creating a synthesized waveform signal, has: a step (or... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7734467 | Techniques for aiding speech-to-speech translation Techniques for assisting in translation are provided A speech recognition hypothesis is obtained, corresponding to a source language utterance. Information retrieval is performed on a supplemental database, based on a situational context, to obtain at least one word... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7716052 | Method, apparatus and computer program providing a multi-speaker database for concatenative text-to-speech synthesis A method, apparatus and a computer program product to generate an audible speech word that corresponds to text. The method includes providing a text word and, in response to the text word, processing pre-recorded speech segments that are derived from a plurality of ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711562 | System and method for testing a TTS voice Disclosed are various elements of a toolkit used for generating a TTS voice for use in a spoken dialog system. The invention in each case may be in the form of the system, a computer-readable medium or a method for generating the TTS voice. An embodiment of the inve... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7702509 | Unsupervised data-driven pronunciation modeling Pronunciation for an input word is modeled by generating a set of candidate phoneme strings having pronunciations close to the input word in an orthographic space. Phoneme sub-strings in the set are selected as the pronunciation. In one aspect, a first closeness mea... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698139 | Method and apparatus for a differentiated voice output In a method and apparatus for a differentiated voice output, systems existing in a vehicle, such as the on-board computer, the navigation system, and others, can be connected with a voice output device. The voice outputs of different systems can be differentiated by... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7657435 | Acoustic signal transmission method and apparatus with insertion signal The acoustic signal transmission method is based on generating a synthesized sound electrical signal by electrically synthesizing an audible sound signal and another signal different than the audible sound signal at the sending side, and transmitting the synthesized... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653542 | Method and system for providing synthesized speech An approach providing the efficient use of speech synthesis in rendering text content as audio in a communications network. The communications network can include a telephony network and a data network in support of, for example, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7640161 | Wordspotting system An approach to improving the performance of a wordspotting system includes providing an interface for interactive improvement of a phonetic representation of a query based on an operator identifying true detections and false alarms in a data set. ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7630896 | Speech synthesis system and method A speech synthesis system in a preferred embodiment includes a speech unit storage section, a phonetic environment storage section, a phonetic sequence/prosodic information input section, a plural-speech-unit selection section, a fused-speech-unit sequence generatio... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7610200 | System and method for controlling sound data A system and method for controlling access to parameter blocks of a sound processor. According to the method and system disclosed herein, the present invention includes a host, a sound processor coupled to the host, and at least two copies of a parameter block assoc... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7606709 | Voice converter with extraction and modification of attribute data An apparatus is constructed for converting an input voice signal into an output voice signal according to a target voice signal. In the apparatus, an input device provides the input voice signal composed of original sinusoidal components and original residual compon... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7599838 | Speech animation with behavioral contexts for application scenarios Methods and systems, including computer program products, for speech animation. The system includes a speech animation server and one or more speech animation clients. The speech animation server generates speech animation content that drives the expressions and beh... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7584104 | Method and system for training a text-to-speech synthesis system using a domain-specific speech database A system, method and computer readable medium that trains a text-to-speech synthesis system for use in speech synthesis is disclosed. The method may include recording audio files of one or more live voices speaking language used in a specific domain, the audio files... | 09/01/2009 |
